

But, at least to me, the approaches don't make the operations much easier or better. All four of the new additions-black-and-white conversion, curve-based correction, distortion correction, and a different take on sharpening-try new interfaces for old problems.

However, the imaging tools don't seem to be keeping up. The organizer and photo downloader have also taken a step forward in elegance and usability. Overall, there seems to be more and better creative content in Photoshop Elements 5, and it's generally easier to work with. But Elements seems to have settled into its identity as something more-and less-than a "lite" Photoshop.Ĭlick here for a tour of Photoshop Elements 5's new features. There's the occasional familiar dialog box and a handful of traditional Photoshop interface quirks that may elude newbies-for example, how to enter the unit (such as "px" for "pixels") in the width and height of the crop box.

It's taken a while for the software to crawl out from the shadow of its celebrity sibling, Photoshop, but these days you'd be hard-pressed to find similarities between the two. This week, Adobe announced the latest version of its consumer image-editing package, Photoshop Elements 5.
